04-11-2023, 08:20 PM
(04-11-2023, 08:03 PM)Radio_man Wrote: Another article this weekend from The Guardian on the future of Newsnight£8m? Katie Searl, the former BBC politics head said in the Telegraph the budget was £13m for an average of 300k viewers (21 September)
"But for some former fans of Newsnight, the time has come to bury the show, not to praise it. This weekend, the BBC’s increasingly centralised team of news reporters is nervously awaiting the diagnosis. Will the flagship late-night news analysis show on BBC Two live to fight another day, or is it to be fatally wounded by £5m cuts to its £8m budget?"
www.theguardian.com
For context, The Times reported STV News at 6 had a Scotland wide average reach of 382k. I guarantee you it doesn't have a £13m or an £8m budget for the entire news operation, let alone one show.
If the BBC think the show has value, then quantify it. Say its prepared to pay a premium of x to reach a specific audience or do a specific type of journalism or subject. Then it has an objective way of measuring outcomes.